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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: 6milPhil on 12 April 2017, 02:16:57 PM
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Allo All,
I need to do a wash over my boards, and rather than spend an arm and a leg on a gazillion tiny pots of wash like I use on minis, and in 6mil those go a looooooooong way, I've bought some artist acrylic in a tube, Burnt Umber, but not sure about the dilution I should use. Any suggestions?
Cheers in anticipation...
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I think mine is about 1:5 or 1:6, mixed with Klear.
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I assume that's just a few drops of Klear to break the surface tension?
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Or you can use Acrylic Flow Improver, which has much the same effect - reduces surface tension.
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Excellent, thanks.
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I assume that's just a few drops of Klear to break the surface tension?
Actually, I use no water - just magical, magical Klear (you need to get the right sort though). That way it doubles up as half a coat of varnish.
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This is a bit of a tangent, but only a bit.
I saw a guy on YouTube who made large (huge, really) quantities of wash for use on terrain by using cheap water-based decking stain, diluted with plain water and using a squirt of plain old dishwashing detergent as a flow agent.
He was buying 10 litre buckets of the stain for just a few pounds at a British chain we don't have here in the Antipodes; as he said, one bucket would provide him with more wash than he could foresee using in a lifetime. In the video he was dipping complete GW plastic Gothic ruins into the mix, rather than brushing it on. Like I said, huge quantities.
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This is a bit of a tangent, but only a bit.
I saw a guy on YouTube who made large (huge, really) quantities of wash for use on terrain by using cheap water-based decking stain, diluted with plain water and using a squirt of plain old dishwashing detergent as a flow agent.
He was buying 10 litre buckets of the stain for just a few pounds at a British chain we don't have here in the Antipodes; as he said, one bucket would provide him with more wash than he could foresee using in a lifetime. In the video he was dipping complete GW plastic Gothic ruins into the mix, rather than brushing it on. Like I said, huge quantities.
Was it Luke? 15 liters for £3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlYWHanxAug
There's also this tutorial, using acrylic paints and diluting it like Ahistorian does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWtkHijibKU
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Was it Luke? 15 liters for £3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlYWHanxAug (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlYWHanxAug)
That's the very guy :)